Question

A patient presents to the office with a suspicious lesion of the nose. the physician takes a biopsy of the lesion and pathology determines the lesion to be uncertain. what is the correct diagnosis code to report?

Answer 1

In health care organisations, diagnosis codes are used as a tool to group diseases, symptoms, adverse effects, etc. For the sceneario given in the question, the diagnosis code is 238.2. The code represents 'neoplasm of uncertain behaviour of skin.